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D.A. Cockburn M.A. (St Andrews), B.Phil., D.Phil. (Oxford)

Professor David Cockburn

Room A118 Arts Building
Office Hours: Monday 10am - 1pm, Tuesday 9am - 1pm
email: d.cockburn@lamp.ac.uk
phone: 01570 424983

David Cockburn, who has also taught at University of Wales Swansea, the Open University and Abo Akademi in Finland, is Professor of Philosophy at University of Wales, Lampeter.

He held a British Academy Research Readership 1994-96. His publications include: Hume (Open University Press, 1983); Other Human Beings (Macmillan, 1990); Human Beings (ed) (Cambridge University Press, 1991) (the proceedings of the Royal Institute of Philosophy Conference on Human Beings held at Lampeter in 1990); Other Times: philosophical perspectives on past, present and future (Cambridge University Press, 1997); An Introduction to the Philosophy of Mind (Palgrave, 2001). His research areas include Hume, Wittgenstein, Philosophy of Mind, Time, Causation and Ethics. Offers specialist supervision in Philosophy of Mind; Epistemology; Wittgenstein; Time; Metaphysics.

Undergraduate modules taught:

Introduction to Self and Metaphysics
Ethics and Agency
The Later Wittgenstein


Professor Cockburn is also author of the following modules on the Department’s distance MA schemes: Mind and Body: Descartes and Wittgenstein, Writing Philosophy, Philosophy of Religion (with John Daniel), Reincarnation, Rebirth and Philosophy (with Wendy Dosset and Maya Warrier), Philosophy and Life after Death, Hume.


Complete List of Professor Cockburn's Publications

Online Essays

Expression, emotion, and conversation (2009)

Wittgenstein: the end of metaphysics? (2008)

People and their bodies (2007)

Meaning, rules and conversation (2003)

Language, belief, and human beings (2003)

Memories, traces and the significance of the past (2001)

Human beings and an 'absolute conception' (2000)

Self, world and God (1999)

The mind, the brain, and the face (1985)

The reality of discourse

In the beginning was the deed